Jessi Klein Quotes

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

Jessi Klein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 17, 1975

Topics

PaintingWorldSickMouthSculpture

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Maya Lin

MeBlackThinkHurtAmericanYoung

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.

Michael Connelly

PeopleReadingCrimeWriteLikeSue

My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

Shy Glizzy

MusicAgeKnowledgeGameFactsReal

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

Rob Sheffield

CommunityProblemMagicGardenFirst

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

Mike Mills

DogWordsMindTalkingBackYour

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

Michael Jordan

BestChallengesLovedWantGuyJust

I'm old enough to remember when 'Law and Order' was once the Republican campaign slogan.

Mimi Kennedy

LawEnoughRememberOldRepublican

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

Jason Statham

YourselfYouFindKnowWillBring

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

Don Henley

TimeEndingNowRealizeEaglesBeen

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

CowMilkMoreOldUnitedJust

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Arne Jacobsen

GoodGoalsReachNowSayHigh

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

Scott Weiland

BestWriteMiserableSongsThing

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